MiSoC
Past work – Education and skills
Read more about our past work:
The ‘production’ of attainment in secondary schools (Birgitta Rabe)
How does a decline in child mortality influence women’s choices of labour market participation, marriage, and fertility? (Sonia Bhalotra)
How do students want to fund Higher Education? (Angus Holford)
The surprisingly negative impact of good news from OFSTED (Birgitta Rabe)
When gold prices go up, so does the cost of a dowry – and baby girl survival rates in India fall (Sonia Bhalotra)
The long-run effects of attending an elite school (Emilia Del Bono)
With more people gaining a university degree, how is society as a whole being affected? (Angus Holford)
Primary School Students’ Attitudes Towards Peers Displaying Hyperactivity – Examining Impacts of Homophily and Inter-group contact on Students’ Social Inclusion (Zsofia Boda)
Social comparison effects on academic self-concepts: Which peers matter most? (Zsofia Boda)
Case study: The impact of free early years education and care
Mental health risks to girls who spend more than an hour a day on social media (Cara Booker)
Do unpaid interns benefit from the experience? Or who is hurt the least? (Angus Holford)
How female foeticide has influenced fertility and parental investments in girls (Sonia Bhalotra)
How maternal depression affects mothers and children (Sonia Bhalotra)
Does women’s education reduce rates of death in childbirth? (Sonia Bhalotra)
Benefits of time (Emilia Del Bono)
EU students do very well out of studying in the UK – Brexit might scupper that (Renee Luthra, Greta Morando)
Universal benefits? What effects does early education have on childhood development and women’s career choices? (Birgitta Rabe)
Saturday jobs and the damage to grades (Angus Holford)
Some of our key findings:
Interaction between private and public investments in children
- Private response to public investments: the impact of school quality information on parental inputs
- The impact of free childcare for three year olds on children and parents
- The ‘production’ of attainment in secondary schools
Sibling and peer influences on children’s development and outcomes
- Sibling spillover effects in school achievement
- Mother’s time and child outcomes
- Response of parental time investments to children’s skills and health
- Parental and child time investments and the cognitive development of adolescents
Childhood circumstances, resilience, and adult outcomes
Inequalities in Higher Education outcomes, student preferences
- A longitudinal study of undergraduate students – BOOST2018
- Student preferences over fees, grants and loans
A full list of all ISER’s research
- Watch the MiSoC Special Session on Mental Health and Human Capital at the Royal Economic Society Conference 2017:
Maternal Emotional Well-Being and Child Development. An Issue of Measurement? (Emillia Del Bono)
Maternal Depression, Household Bargaining and Labour Supply: Experimental Evidence (Sonia Bhalotra)